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First off before the update, a little news: A few days ago, Xavia, our lovely development director, was severely injured in a motor-vehicle accident. She was in critical condition following the accident as well as several days after it, and may still very well be in a similar condition. We would like to extend our prayers to her, her health and her family, and we hope she comes out of it the best she can.

Starting at 4 PM EST(check your local time here) on Saturday (February 25), the developers and QA are looking to perform another stress-test on Nova Test Center that will last roughly 3 hours (thus concluding at ~7 PM EST if results are sufficient). We need as many people as possible to log in, so please join us and Nova's rapid progression by contributing to our latest stress-test!

In addition to general stress testing, aka logging as many instances as your computer can handle, developers would like us to test some specific things:

TC: Nova will be wiped a few hours before the stress-test to accommodate the update required to start off with the test.

The purpose of this specific test is to establish any bugs relating to PLAYER CITIES and PLAYER HOUSING.

Adjusted City Settings for Stress Test

The following settings have been adjusted for the testing environment, please do not report these as bugs:

The CityUpdateInterval, or how quickly cities attempt to update (contract, expand, stay the same), has been set to 30 minutes for the test.

The CitizensPerRank, or number of citizens required for each city rank has been changed to:

Outpost: 2

Village: 5

Township: 10

City: 15

Metropolis: 20

The maximum number of cities per planet limit has been removed for the duration of the test.

Cities should decay if you do not have at least 2 citizens within 15 minutes, so plan ahead.

WHERE?

Nova Test Center (TC: Nova)

WHEN?

4:00 PM - 7 PM EST (GMT-5)

HOW?

Make a character on TC: Nova, grab some houses and furniture from the character creation terminals (blue frogs) and live it up! If you can, start a city or collaborate with your fellow testers and friends to start up your very own city, with all the amenities like shuttleports and cloning facilities.

WHAT ABOUT LIBERATOR?

For the duration for this stress-test Liberator will be OFFLINE.

Once again and log in as many characters as your computer can handle. Remember this is not just stress test, there are specific tasks we need to complete. Those who never submitted a bug report should check this guide first: How to report bugs on Bug Tracker (Mantis). A well written bug report will make QA's job much easier.

During the morning of Saturday, February 4th, the SWGEmu website will be brought down for maintenance and upgrades to the Apache and PHP systems. As some of you have noticed, there was a recent sub-domain change to "registration.swgemu.com", due to a new install of Apache and PHP to improve forum performance under heavy load.

HOW LONG?

It is expected to last between 2 and 4 hours, hopefully concluding at around 12:00 (noon) EST on Saturday, February 4th.

WHAT ABOUT THE GAME?

The site will be down including Global Registration, however, other services will NOT be affected; Liberator, Nova, and IRC will be ONLINE.

After the site is brought back up, the default sub-domain will be changed back to "site.swgemu.com"/"www.swgemu.com", and the "registration." sub-domain will be taken offline.

Starting at 4 PM EST on Sunday (January 29), the developers and QA are looking to perform another stress-test on Nova Test Center that will probably last as long as is needed to gather what we need for Nova. We need as many people as possible to log in, so please join us and Nova's rapid progression by contributing to our latest stress-test!

In addition to general stress testing, aka logging as many instances as your computer can handle, developers would like us to test some specific things:

Geonosian (Geo) Lab and Death Watch Bunker (DWB)

Certain issues have been fixed but we need YOUR help to find any more!

PLEASE NOTE: TC: Nova wont be wiped before this test.

Teleport Terminals will be provided to travel to and from the Geo Lab and Death Watch Bunker!

WHERE?

Nova Test Center (TC: Nova)

WHEN?

4:00 PM, lasting until results are sufficient

HOW?

Log on tho your existing characters or make a new one on TC: Nova and help Devs test Geo Lab and DWB.

WHAT ABOUT LIBERATOR?

For the duration for this stress-test Liberator will be OFFLINE.

Once again and log in as many characters as your computer can handle. Remember this is not just stress test, there are specific tasks we need to complete. Those who never submitted a bug report should check this guide first: How to report bugs on Bug Tracker (Mantis). A well written bug report will make QA's job much easier.

Starting at 3 PM EST(check your local time here) on Saturday (January 21), the developers and QA are looking to perform a stress-test on Nova Test Center that will last roughly 1.5 hours (thus concluding at ~4:30 PM EST if results are sufficient). We need as many people as possible to log in, so please join us and Nova's rapid progression by contributing to our latest stress-test!

WHERE?

Nova Test Center (TC: Nova)

WHEN?

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST (GMT-5)

HOW?

Just log in and help us stress test our new OR code on TC: Nova!

WHAT ABOUT LIBERATOR?

For the duration for this stress-test Liberator will be OFFLINE.

Make and log in as many characters as your computer can handle, remember this is primarily a stress test, but there is still much work to be done, so: test anything and everything. Those who never submitted a bug report should check this guide first: How to report bugs on Bug Tracker (Mantis). A well written bug report will make QA's job much easier.